The January 6th Committee: Pilot Episode

The Muckrake Political Podcast

CLNS Media Network

News, Politics

4.6 • 530 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This is an abbreviated version of our weekly Patreon show. To access the full-episode and support the pod, head on over to http://www.patreon.com/muckrakepodcast Co-hosts Jared Yates Sexton and Nick Hauselman discuss the effectiveness of the first hearing the January 6th Committee held last night. and whether it will do enough to change the media narrative. They break down the structure of the presentation and if it could possibly be compelling to people who don't consider it an insurrection.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to the Weekender edition of the Muckraig podcast. I'm Jared Yates Sexton. I'm here with Nick Halsman. This is maybe the latest podcast we've ever recorded. Is that correct?
0:14.2	I think without question. Right? This is the latest that you and I have done this.
0:18.5	This is going to be a muckrake after dark.
0:21.6	It is a muckrake after dark production.
0:25.6	We are here recording live after the January 6th special committee has adjourned from their first prime time hearing.
0:36.6	They went for just a smidge over two hours, just a little bit over two hours.
0:41.3	Oh, well, you know, if you want to do CNN time, it was a smidge under two hours. But, you know,
0:48.1	who's counting? That's right. They made the late Elvis Presley entrance. They made us wait a couple
0:53.6	seconds. Tonight, just to get everybody
0:56.0	up to speed, we heard from Benny Thompson, chair of the committee, as well as Liz Cheney,
1:01.0	the lead Republican on the committee. We saw new footage. We got a glimpse of the opening statement,
1:10.0	more or less, of a prosecutorial board that isn't a
1:14.0	prosecutor. We got an idea of where this thing is going. I've got my thoughts. Nick has yours
1:19.8	or has his. Nick, you want to start? Terrible language. Do you want to start off? What are your
1:25.4	initial thoughts? Well, I know. Do we really
1:28.0	have to have Jason Miller be the guy we see first in a video clip? What is that, by the way? The first
1:35.8	thing that we see is Jason Miller. Yeah. So, I don't know. But anyway, you know, it wasn't,
1:42.8	here's the problem. They talked about this on TV beforehand. I didn't really want to listen to too much of it to be influenced. But, you know, they're promising a lot of explosive stuff. Raskin is out there saying you're not going to believe it. And so is like Kinsinger. And so, you know, this was not that, right? This was not any kind of explosive, you know, reveal. Now, they,
2:01.0	in my mind, they should have, you know, done something. If they have 15 things that are going to
2:06.4	be explosive, drop one on the first night, you know, give us something to talk about. Now,
2:12.7	but I will say that the video edit of the insurrection itself, I thought was, was good and was powerful.
2:19.0	And that's really compelling. Yeah, that was the most compelling thing about I saw. And we talked,
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CLNS Media Network, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of CLNS Media Network and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.